I’VE THAT SCENT OF SHEER STORY POTENTIAL CLINGING TO THE INSIDE OF MY NOSE.

And it is wonderfully sweet.

I’d actually like to take a little moment to say I’m so happy that these challenges seem to get people writing and I’ve seen more than a few folks sell-through stories based on these challenges, which makes the brittle broken snow-globe that I call my heart twitch and shine for one second.

Anyway, let’s get to it.

All you need to do this week is to use a d20 or a random number generator to consult the table at the bottom of the document to roll for a story’s title. It’s a two-part title (meaning, two random numbers 1-20) and whatever title you get must fit the story you write for it.

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Okay! First timer here. I rolled a 2/3 and got “Devil’s Angel”. Almost too good? Anyway here it is. I would love some feedback. This is my first short story. I really struggled to edit it down to what it is.

Thanks for reading! Also, thanks for picking out that omission. It has been fixed. It was detail that was left out after I tried to edit for length, then gave up realizing I had eviscerated the guts from the story.

I got “Invisible Bookstore.” Because the plague grips still two of my children, I’ve had lots of time to let this title stroll through the creative centers of my brain, and a mini-story to my larger novel-length work of INTERFACE, came to mind. The premise of INTERFACE is that humanity has been divided into two sects: Neurals and Purists. As you can imagine, the Neurals have a cerebral upgrade. Not Cyber Men upgrade, mind you. They still look like humans. But the world is divided. A casualty of this is libraries and bookstores. One woman, a Purist, is taking it upon herself to right that wrong. My story of INVISIBLE BOOKSTORES comes in right at 1,000 words. Sci Fi/Fantasy is a tough genre for flash, but I think I made this one work. Would love if folks read and comment. I can’t get these bits of placenta off my writing career if I don’t take a bath in feedback.

Took a little while, but it’s done now. I apologize that my blog isn’t in WordPress but that might change soon. My roll for title gave me “Dog Star God” as a project. I had no idea how this would turn out, but it is completely different than what I started with. Thank you for reading, hope you enjoy it. Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.

I hope you don’t mind that I printed out your review and framed it. I framed it and it’s pegged at eye level on the wall directly in front of me. That way, while blood pours from my eye sockets while I write a chapter two to this, I’ll know it’ll be totally worth it! Thank you very much for your words of encouragement. It means a lot.

Wow! Looks like it’s been a very popular challenge so far. I haven’t done one in a while but I’m starting 2014 off on the right foot. Rolled a few titles until something sparked and that something was:

No need to put down your writing! I really enjoyed this. I love the small mysteries left unresolved about the stones and why his apprentice sold him out yet ran to tell him. Great read, thanks for sharing!

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That was fun, and I don’t think you have to worry about people not getting it. I had to look up what a cheeser was, and we didn’t call it the same thing in Canada, but this seems a pretty Universal schoolboy pursuit.

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